An­gry over the state of To­ba­go au­ton­o­my, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has de­scribed Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley as a “house slave," ac­cus­ing him of ig­nor­ing the needs of To­ba­go’s peo­ple.

The main op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Mon­day used its num­bers in the Par­lia­ment to pre­vent the gov­ern­ment from push­ing for­ward leg­is­la­tion on the grant­i­ng of au­ton­o­my to To­ba­go.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Air­line Pi­lots As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA)  Mon­day warned of pos­si­ble dis­rup­tions to the ser­vice of the state-owned Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) af­ter it ac­cused the air­line’s man­age­ment of seek­ing to hi­jack the ne­go­ti­a­tions over salary in­creas­es for pi­lots.

Hon­orary Con­sul for the Re­pub­lic of Por­tu­gal, William Fer­reira, has been re-elect­ed as the Dean of the Con­sular Corps of T&T.

Jawan­za Richards, 40, of Sesame Street, Pin­to Road, Ari­ma, was re­port­ed­ly gunned down around 8:15 pm on De­cem­ber 8. At the time of the at­tack, he was show­er­ing in an un­fin­ished con­crete struc­ture at the back of his house.

The Min­istry of Health is now mon­i­tor­ing the emer­gence of the Ma­yaro and Oropouche virus­es, two trop­i­cal dis­eases that pose po­ten­tial health risks to the pop­u­la­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider Caribbean. 

Three sus­pects were ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the cen­tral di­vi­sion, fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a re­port of rob­bery with vi­o­lence in the Gran Cou­va dis­trict, last Fri­day.

Three men at­tempt­ed to rob the Re­pub­lic Bank ATM at the Shoppes of Mar­aval, Sad­dle Road, Mar­aval, in the ear­ly hours to­day. 

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) says it has suc­cess­ful­ly per­formed some 300 cataract surg­eries at the Cou­va Hos­pi­tal and Mul­ti Train­ing Fa­cil­i­ty over a three-month pe­ri­od.

Hun­dreds of Syr­i­an refugees gath­ered at two bor­der cross­ings in south­ern Turkey on Mon­day, ea­ger­ly an­tic­i­pat­ing their re­turn home fol­low­ing the fall of Pres­i­dent Bashar As­sad’s gov­ern­ment.

The In­sti­tute of Ma­rine Af­fairs (IMA), to­geth­er with a re­search team from Coastal Dy­nam­ics Lim­it­ed (CDL), is us­ing ad­vanced com­put­er mod­els to gain new in­sights in­to To­ba­go’s coral reef ecosys­tems.

Garbage col­lec­tion in the Pe­nal/Debe re­gion could halt as Christ­mas ap­proach­es, due to in­dus­tri­al ac­tion by dai­ly-paid work­ers from the Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (PDRC), who are protest­ing un­paid al­lowances.